Brian M. Mazanec, PhD

Deputy Director, Office of Preparedness HHS Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response

Kevin Fu, PhD

Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Northeastern
University Director, Archimedes Center for Healthcare and Device Security

A Fireside Chat on Strengthening the Cybersecurity of the Healthcare and Public Health Sector and Keeping Patients Safe

Join Dr. Brian Mazanec and Dr. Kevin Fu for a fireside chat on strengthening the cybersecurity of the healthcare and public health sector and keeping patients safe.

Brian Mazanec is the Deputy Director of the Office of Preparedness within the Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response (ASPR) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). He helps lead the office responsible for all aspects of preparation for events such as disease outbreaks, natural disasters, and intentional attacks with chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear (CBRN) weapons. This work is closely coordinated with other offices within ASPR, as well as other related components within HHS, such as CDC's Office of Readiness and Response, other U.S. government departments and agencies, and international allies and partners. Brian’s responsibilities include oversight and management of the following component offices: Security and Intelligence; Information Management, Data and Analytics; Critical Infrastructure Protection; Health Care Readiness; Medical Reserve Corps; Planning and Exercises; Continuity; and the Secretary’s Operations Center.

Kevin Fu is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Northeastern University and Director of the Archimedes Center for Healthcare and Device Security. His research vision is a world where science-based security is built-in by design to all embedded systems: medical devices, healthcare delivery, autonomous transportation, manufacturing, and the Internet of Things. His research lab focuses on analog cybersecurity—how to model and defend against threats to the physics of computation and sensing. Fu is most known for his security research on cryptographic and low-power inventions to defend against vulnerabilities in an implantable cardiac defibrillator. His research led to a decade of revolutionary improvements at medical device manufacturers, global regulators, and international healthcare safety standards bodies. Security solutions resulting from this research foresaw the risks of malicious software affecting hospitals a decade before ransomware began to disrupt clinical workflow worldwide. Fu previously served as the nation's inaugural Acting Director of Medical Device Cybersecurity at U.S. FDA’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH) and Program Director for Cybersecurity at the Digital Health Center of Excellence (DHCoE).

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More information about this series is available at: https://pharm.ucsf.edu/cersi/cybersecurity

Contact the host of CERSI-FDA Cybersecurity Seminar Series: Brian Mazanec (9-10 am Pacific / 12-1 pm Eastern)